Security Seminar 2012: Privacy
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This is the main web site for the Privacy Seminar (I00136) of the Kerckhoffs Institute. Details about the lecture can be found here.
Summary
In this seminar we will explore the state of the art in privacy enhancing technologies (PET), and discuss theories (technical, legal and societal) of privacy.Course changes, 2012
Compared to previous years, the structure of the 2012 course has changed.First, we have several invited guest lectures (details to be announced soon).
- On legal and societal issues: Nynke Wismen and Frederik Borgesius
- On technical issues: tba.
Second, the course is supported by a wiki, to which all are invited to contribute.
And finally there will be a special assignment to using a new service from
Bits of Freedom, that will allow one to request details about your personal information stored by companies and organisations that you do business with. We will use this assignment to see how forthcoming all these organisation are in their legal duty to inform you about the personal data they keep on you.
Organisation
Seminar teachers are
Jaap-Henk Hoepman
and
Merel Koning (room HG02.047, email: m.koning@cs.ru.nl).
Similar to previous years, the lecture is a seminar, meaning that you have to do some literature study and a small research project, and present the results in class as well as writing a student paper on the same topic. The topic of study has to be selected from the following list. Further details can be found here here.
Deadlines
The paper skeleton must be submitted on or before May 18.Deadline for the final paper is June 22.
Resources
- Jaap-Henk Hoepman and Marc van Lieshout: "Privacy". Chapter of a forthcoming book.
- Bits of Freedom's PIM.
- Slides of the 1st lecture.
Schedule (spring 2012)
Lectures take place from 13:30 to 15:15 in room HFML 0220 (in the High Field Magnet Laboratory, behind the Huygens building). Slides of presentations that are available are linked from here.
| Date | Topic | Deadline |
| February 3 | (no lecture) | |
| February 10 | "Course overview", "Privacy: an overview" and by Jaap-Henk Hoepman | |
| February 17 | Guestlecture Nynke Wisman | |
| February 24 | (no lecture) | |
| March 2 | Guestlecture Frederik Borgesius | |
| March 9 | Geert Smelt - Electronic Voting and Merel Koning - Bits of Freedom | |
| March 16 | ||
| March 23 | ||
| March 30 | ||
| April 6 | (no lecture) | |
| April 13 | (no lecture) | |
| April 20 | ||
| April 27 | ||
| May 4 | (no lecture) | |
| May 11 | ||
| May 18 | Deadline paper skeleton | |
| May 25 | ||
| June 1 | ||
| June 8 | ||
| June 15 | ||
| June 22 | Deadline student paper |
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